Datasheet

QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) for IBM BladeCente

The QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) supports the I/O modules listed in Table 3. The

table also lists the BladeCenter chassis that support each I/O module.

The card requires that a supported I/O module is installed in bay 3 or bay 4 of the chassis, however for

redundancy and performance purposes, we recommend that you install two I/O modules in the chassis,

one in bay 3 and one in bay 4 of the chassis.

Table 3. I/O module and chassis combinations supported with the QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion

Card (CIOv)

I/O module Part number

Brocade 4 Gb 20-port SAN Switch Module 32R1812 N Y Y Y Y

Brocade 4 Gb 10-port SAN Switch Module 32R1813 Y Y Y Y Y

Brocade Enterprise 20-port 8Gb SAN Switch Module 42C1828 N Y Y N Y

Brocade 20-port 8Gb SAN Switch Module 44X1920 N Y Y N Y

Brocade 10-port 8Gb SAN Switch Module 44X1921 N Y Y N Y

Cisco 4 Gb 20-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 39Y9280 N Y Y Y Y

Cisco 4 Gb 10-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 39Y9284 Y Y Y Y Y

IBM BladeCenter Optical Pass-thru Module 39Y9316 Y Y Y Y Y

McDATA 4 Gb 20-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 32R1833 N Y Y Y Y

McDATA 4 Gb 10-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 32R1905 N Y Y Y Y

QLogic 4 Gb 20-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 26R0881 N Y Y Y Y

QLogic 4 Gb 10-port Fibre Channel Switch Module 32R1904 N Y Y Y Y

QLogic 20-port 4 Gb SAN Switch Module 43W6725 N Y Y Y Y

QLogic 10-port 4 Gb SAN Switch Module 43W6724 Y Y Y Y Y

QLogic 20-Port 8 Gb SAN Switch Module 44X1905 Y Y Y Y Y

QLogic 8 Gb Intelligent Pass-thru Module 44X1907 Y Y Y Y Y

QLogic 4 Gb Intelligent Pass-thru Module 43W6723 Y Y Y Y Y

Important considerations:

The BladeCenter S does not support all I/O modules, as shown in Table 3.

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When using an IBM BladeCenter Optical Pass-thru Module (OPM), the speed of the Fibre Channel

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link will be limited to 2 GB. This is a limitation of the OPM.

Many of the I/O modules listed in the table also support the Mutli-Switch Interconnect Module (MSIM)

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and MSIM-HT. However, we do not list that support here since CIOv expansion cards do not support

the use of the MSIM or MSIM-HT.